Paula Hamilton BA (Hons), FHEA

As an undergraduate, I read politics at Liverpool University receiving the John Patterson University Undergraduate Scholarship for academic achievement. In 1999, I began my Probation Officer training, gaining a further degree in Community Justice from Manchester University. Following qualification, I worked as a Probation Officer in Greater Manchester before joining Manchester University as a lecturer in Criminology and Community justice. I came to Sheffield Hallam in September 2002.

Whilst at Hallam I have held a range of academic and administrative posts and have been involved as researcher and lead researcher in a range of contract research projects with the Hallam Centre for Community Justice.

My teaching and research interests include gender and crime/criminal justice, particularly violence against women; penology; criminal justice/penal policy, and the use of qualitative methods, particularly narrative enquiry, in criminological research.

I was awarded a University Inspirational Teaching Award for the academic year 2011/12.

• Hallam Centre for Community Justice

I am currently completing my doctoral research; a narrative enquiry into how people desist from a previously criminal lifestyle and of the role of contemporary rehabilitative interventions in that process.

I have been have been involved in a range of contract research, for example an investigation of the efficacy of help lines for victims and perpetrators of domestic violence at Manchester University, and an evaluation of a multi-agency service to respond to domestic violence with the Hallam Centre for Community Justice.

Book chapters

Hamilton, P. (2016). Emotions and identity transformation. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: transforming identities. (pp. 19-42). Bristol: Policy Press: https://policypress.co.uk/moving-on-from-crime-and-substance-use#book-detail-tabs-stison-block-content-1-0-tab2

Hamilton, P. (2016). Extending the ‘desistance and recovery debates’: Thoughts on identity. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming identities. (pp. 9-18). Bristol: Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t88xzs.5

Goodwin, S. (2016). Lived desistance: understanding how women experience giving up offending. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: transforming identities. (pp. 67-90). Bristol: Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t88xzs.8

Robinson, A. (2016). Growing out of crime? Problems, pitfalls and possibilities. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: transforming identities. (pp. 91-120). Bristol: Policy Press: https://policypress.co.uk/moving-on-from-crime-and-substance-use

Burrows, J. (2016). Fear and loathing in the community: sexual offenders and desistance in a climate of risk and 'extreme othering'. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use transforming identities. (pp. 153-174). Policy Press: https://policypress.co.uk/moving-on-from-crime-and-substance-use

Sloan, J. (2016). Men, prison and aspirational masculinities. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming identities. (pp. 43-66). Bristol: Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t88xzs.7

Best, D. (2016). Social identity, social networks and social capital in desistance and recovery. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming identities. (pp. 175-194). Bristol: Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t88xzs.12

Irving, J. (2016). Alcoholics anonymous: Sustaining behavioural change. In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming Identities. (pp. 195-228). Bristol: Policy Press: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t88xzs.13

Hamilton, P., & Albertson, K. (2015). Reflections on values and ethics in narrative inquiry with (ex-)offenders. In Cowburn, M., Duggan, M., Robinson, A., & Senior, P. (Eds.) Values in criminology and community justice. (pp. 329-342). London: Policy Press

Books

Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.). (2016). Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming identities. Bristol: Policy Press. https://policypress.co.uk/moving-on-from-crime-and-substance-use

Reports

Hamilton, P., Wilkinson, K., Meadows, L., & Cadet, N. (2008). The answers are within me. An evaluation of a person centred counselling service for men at HMP Doncaster who have had experience of domestic violence 2005-2007. Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University. http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/hccj/publications_reports.html